Among the advantages of the bus terminal is an online centralised ticket sale
with the cooperation of easybook.com which will tackle black market ticket
sales.

Sri Indah Regional Bus Terminal is the first in Sabah to use full online
centralised ticket sales.

Through the online platform easyook.com, the public can buy bus tickets for the
Sri Indah bus terminal online as well as for other terminals.

Taxi at Sri Indah Regional Bus Terminal Taxis are readily available at Sri Indah Regional Bus
Terminal to take you to down town Tawau.

The alternative cheaper fare is take a Grab car which are
plentiful available anytime.

Commuters can use the taxi services in the bus terminal
provided by five taxi
associations or they can use the BSI bus to Tawau town as well as the bus from
Semporna-Balung-Tawau Airport to their respective destinations in the town
centre.

The RM18 million Sri Indah New Regional Bus Terminal in Mile 10, Jalan Apas, for
long distance express bus services (Tawau-Ranau-Kota Kinabalu) was in full
operational on Tuesday 3rd April 2018.

The construction of the terminal started on January 4, 2016 and was completed on
Dec. 4, 2017.
The operating hours would be from 6.30am-8.30pm and a display screen for bus
departures and arrivals has been installed at the terminal.

The old long distance express bus operations in Sabindo ceased on 3rd April
2018.
Rental cars in Sabindo will remain at the same site pending the transfer to
Sabindo Square bus terminal.

The 5.5-acre Sri Indah New Regional Bus Terminal can accommodate 25 to 50
express buses at a time and eight bus operators with 59 buses

The Sri Indah bus terminal was a joint-venture project between the private
sector and the government where the site was provided by Hap Seng Sdn Bhd while
the funding was channelled by the Federal Government.

The management of the new bus terminal is handled by the Tawau Municipal
Council.

Time taken by bus from Tawau to destination points along the route to
Kota Kinabalu via Ranau :

From Tawau to
Balung Junction

30 minutes

From Tawau to Lahad
Datu Sri Perdana Station

2 and a half hours

From Tawau to Kota
Kinabatangan Station

4 hours

From Tawau to Ranau
Town

8 hours

From Tawau to
Kundasang

8 hours +

From Tawau to
Kinabalu Park

8 and a half hour

From Tawau to
Inanam Terminal (KK North)

10 hours

To Tawau from Sarawak
and Brunei

For those from Sarawak and Brunei
travelling by bus along the Pan-Borneo Highway to Tawau Town, this is the
final bus terminal you will end your long
journey with a transit in Kota Kinabalu Regional Terminal.

The buses from Sarawak
and Brunei run directly only up to Kota Kinabalu City. From here
take another direct express bus to Tawau Town.

Between Sarawak and
Sabah via Brunei be prepared for 8 border crossing and passport
checks

The Pan-Borneo Highway
is a stretch of highway in Malaysia that is little bus-traversed.
Most travel guides have completely passed over this highway.

Tawau has inter-district buses
serving the regions surrounding the town.
Taking a bus from Tawau to Kota Kinabalu will take 8 hours. The starting point
of the bus is from Regional Terminal Bas Tawau, while the drop-off point is at
Jalan Tugu, Kota Kinabalu.

This Regional Bus Terminal cater for all inter-district buses arriving from the
Kota Kinabalu including from Sipitang via Kota Kinabalu.

There is no bus from Tawau Town to Indonesia, simply because there is no road
going there. But there are daily buses from Kuching City to Indonesia.

Long Distance Bus Terminal is beside the famous seafood stalls. And the new
Mosque is 10 minutes walk from here.

For those travel from Tawau to Kuching by bus (its a long long journey), the
journey end in Kuching Sentral, This regional bus terminal, 6 miles from Kuching
city center.

There is not direct bus from Tawau to Kuching. Passengers have to
change bus at Kota Kinabalu and Miri.

Kota Kinabalu Bus Terminal - Now replaced by Inanam Bus Terminal

The Kota Kinabalu Bus Terminal is
located 10KM from the city centre

Local buses run once a day to Ranau
from the bus terminal and can drop passengers off at Kinabalu park,
enroute to Ranau .

The buses leave KK at around 7.00am
reaching the Kinabalu park HQ at about 10.00am. It cost about RM15 to
RM20 per person.

For other buses to Tawau, Sandakan, Lahad Datu -usually the same bus
dropping passengers off at the kinabalu park. It will be the same road
to the east.

Arriving at KK from Tawau :
Please note that the bus
will no more bring you to the city since 2006. The bus end the journey in Inanam town and you have to find you own transport for the final journey
to KK city.

Shifting Of Terminal For Long Distance Buses in Kota Kinabalu
beginning 2006

Since January 5, 2006, all long distance bus routes from the North and the East
Coast has been using the new City Bus Terminal (North) at Mile 6, Jalan Tuaran adjacent to the Inanam business centre.

The bus
terminal cater for all inter-district buses arriving from the North including Tawau, Sandakan, Lahad Datu, Ranau, Kudat, Kota Marudu and Kota Belud.

To assist passengers to commute from Town Padang to the Inanam bus terminal and
vice versa, the Town Padang is used as a station for shuttle buses
provided by City Hall, which operate every 15 minutes.